16,821 research outputs found
Anna Pollert, Farewell to Flexibility ?, 1991
No full textErbes-Seguin Sabine. Anna Pollert, Farewell to Flexibility ?, 1991. In: Sociologie du travail, 36ᵉ année n°1, Janvier-mars 1994. pp. 132-134
L'entreprise flexible : réalité ou obsession ?
No full textThe conceptual and operational validity of notions of "flexibility" and "flexible companies", a model proposed in the 1980s as a solution for the recession, are critically examined. The various characteristics often confusedly associated with these notions are tested with empirical data in order to prove that this model does not withstand a detailed analysis of changing labor markets, if differences between sectors are taken into account and factors are weighted for change and continuity. By exposing this model's mixture of description, prescription and prediction, its methodological validity is called in question. The political and institutional context underlying the success of the "flexible firm" model is discussed. associated with these notions are tested with empirical data in order to prove that this model does not withstand a detailed analysis of changing labor markets, if differences between sectors are taken into account and factors are weighted for change and continuity. By exposing this model's mixture of description, prescription and prediction, its methodological validity is called in question. The political and institutional context underlying the success of the "flexible firm" model is discussed.Cet article remet en cause la validité conceptuelle et opérationnelle des notions de «flexibilité » et d' «entreprise flexible » présentées depuis les années 1980, comme le modèle de la solution à la récession. En premier lieu, les différents traits associés de façon souvent confuse à ces notions sont confrontés aux données empiriques pour montrer que le modèle ne résiste pas à une analyse détaillée de révolution des marchés de remploi, tenant compte des différences sectorielles et pondérant changements et continuités. Ensuite, la mise en évidence du mélange de description, de prescription et de prédiction, aboutit à la contestation de leur validité méthodologique. Enfin, l'auteur aborde le contexte institutionnel et politique du succès de «l'entreprise flexible ».Pollert Anna. L'entreprise flexible : réalité ou obsession ?. In: Sociologie du travail, 31ᵉ année n°1, Janvier-mars 1989. pp. 75-106
Women in British Sociology
No full textColloquium celebrating the work of Harriet Bradley and Anna Pollert Friday 25th November 2011, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. The Women’s Library, London EC1We are holding a colloquium to celebrate the important academic contribution of leading sociologists, Harriet Bradley and Anna Pollert, both of whom are retiring in 2011. After careers motivated by socialist feminist politics and activism, Anna and Harriet have made a huge contribution to the study of women’s work, gender and class and its inter-relat..
An Article About Albertus C. Van Raalte, Author Unknown, Except for Parts Taken from an Article by Anna C. Post
No full textAn article about Albertus C. Van Raalte, author unknown, except for parts taken from an article by Anna C. Post. The author knew first generation persons in the Holland settlement and therefore, the article has some value.https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/vrp_1890s/1012/thumbnail.jp
Richardson, Barbauld, and the construction of an early modern fan club
No full textMPhilMuch has been written about the life and long works of the eighteenth century epistolary novelist, Samuel Richardson, but the prospect of his position as the first celebrity novelist – responsible for courting his own fame as well as initiating his own fan club – has largely been ignored. The body of manuscripts housed at the National Art Library in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London provides the modern scholar with evidence of the skeletal beginnings of an early fan club. This thesis aims to show how these manuscripts were turned into a saleable commodity by the publisher and entrepreneur Richard Phillips, while under the guiding hand of another, slightly later, literary celebrity, Anna Laetitia Barbauld. In order to restore Richardson’s reputation amongst a new nineteenth century audience, Barbauld was required to construct her own idea of him as an eighteenth century celebrity author, and in doing so the insecurities of a self-professed, apparently diffident man, are revealed. Barbauld’s capacious, but heavily edited selection of letters is analyzed in this thesis, providing ample evidence that Richardson’s correspondents were more than just eager letter writers. By using Barbauld’s biography of Richardson this thesis aims to show how she manipulates the genre of life writing in her construction of him.
This thesis offers an alternative reading of how the Richardson manuscripts are viewed, redefining them as not simply a collection of letters, but as a collective entity, deliberately selected and archived as evidence of an early modern fan club, and its celebrity managing director
Selection of work by Anna Gerber
No full textVarious journals and magazines Anna Gerber has contributed to. Anna Gerber is a graphic designer and writer based in London.
She is the author and designer of All Messed Up: Unpredictable Graphics (Laurence King, 2004) and co-editor and co-designer
of Influences: A Lexicon of Contemporary Graphic Design (Die Gestalten Verlag, 2006) with Anja Lutz. She writes regularily for magazines such as Print, Eye, Creative Review, Varoom and Idea Magazine and her work has also been published in shift!, dot dot dot and +rosebud.
She teaches at the London College of Communication on the BA Graphic Design and MA Design Writing Criticism programmes. She has also held workshops and lectures across the U.K. (including Tate Modern and the V&A Museum), as well as in India, the U.S., Australia and Malaysia.
Anna Gerber is currently engaged in research and developing projects relating to sustainability and how it applies to graphic
design as well as exploring contemporary graphic design in India
Teamwork and Gendered Work Cultures: The Case of Finland
No full textIn this article I focus on women workers’ experiences of transformation from line work to teamworking in Finnish clothing companies in the 1990s and also show what happened after this transformation in the clothing branch. The undertone of it is rather melancholic. Following an initial period of intensive and successful development, clothing work was moved from Finland to countries of cheap labour, such as Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Russia, and even China. In this type of network manufacturing, the development of modern information and communication technologies played a central role. My aim is to present the standpoint of women clothing workers in this process. The main body of the empirical data of my study consists of dialogues with clothing workers, union representatives, supervisors and managers. I also make use of my fieldwork notes, memos and research diaries from three companies over a period of five years. Furthermore, in the background lie the action research material from Scandinavian type work conferences and the survey material of an extensive mail inquiry that covered the whole branch in Finland. My own research started in 1991 as a mail inquiry and then continued as a case study in companies from 1992 to 2000, by employing action research and ethnographic methodologies.gender; teamworking; clothing industry; Finland
Author and Lecturer Anna Bird Stewart will Speak at the University of Dayton
No full textNews release announcing the visitation and speech of author and lecturer Anna Bird Stewart to the University of Dayton
Operatori del processo edilizio
No full textLemma che descrive i diversi attori del processo edilizio, con particolare attenzione al processo edilizio pubblico - ISBN:ISSN 2284-00IX - visibile su: Wikitecnica.com/author/giovenale-anna-mari
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